“You Belong to Yourself”: Rahul Gandhi’s Clarion Call for Women’s Autonomy at Pune’s Chhatron Ki Goonj
In the humid evening air of Pune on August 22, 2026, thousands of young women filled the grounds of the AISSMS College for the fourth edition of Rahul Gandhi’s Chhatron Ki Goonj campaign. Unlike the earlier gatherings in Kota, Dehradun and Prayagraj, this one was deliberately exclusive to female students. What unfolded was not a […]
AFGHANISTAN TODAY: GANDHARI’S CURSE?
Maharshi Vyasa’s Mahabharata does not record it. But popular folklore and the epic’s modern-day television adaptations state that Queen Gandhari cursed her brother Shakuni that his kingdom of Gandhara (modern-day Afghanistan) would never find peace or prosperity. True or not, Gandhari, wife of the blind king Dhritarashtra, who blindfolded herself, was a woman of great […]
